Thursday, 23 February 2012

The Good Seeds had a table at the Green it - Love Food Hate Waste Launch last Sunday
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Helen from the Good Seeds mingling at the launch

It was a great opportunity to meet other green local community groups and mingle with council employees including the Mayor!

The Good Seeds Table @ the launch

The Love Food Hate Waste series runs through to August, with cook it, buy it, save it, grow it, and compost it workshops. If you attend at least three sessions you receive a free 'getting started'pack with compost bin and lots of other goodies!! For more info and to book visit www.maribyrnong.vic.gov.au/greening

The Good Seeds were also at the screening of the movie Home at the Yarraville Community Centre over the weekend. It was nice to see lots of familiar faces and meet some new ones too. The film is well worth a watch, view it at http://www.youtube.com/user/homeproject

Other local activities :

This Saturday the Seddon Music Festival is on. Find the Good Seeds near the Greens Table.
for more info visit:
http://www.seddonmusic.com/

The Yarraville Pop up Park.
What an awesome initiative by Maribyrnong Council. We highly recommend taking a picnic lunch down and chilling on the deck chairs. There are a few brollies for shade too..

Saturday, 11 February 2012

What a wonderful day - even if Melbourne weather was at its best!!
Thank you to the extremely generous Yarraville traders who donated gifts for our raffle. The beautiful display of prizes attracted lots of people to our stall.

Thursday, 9 February 2012

The Good Seeds are thrilled to have a stall at the Yarraville Arts Festival this Saturday (11/2/12)
Please come on down and say hola! At this stage we think we will be located outside Plump.

There are lots of great reasons to come and say hello (besides seeing our lovely faces!)

- A raffle with fantastic prizes kindly donated by local traders (including an Urban Composting kit - thanks to the Good Store, A lovely kids book by a local author - thanks to the Sun Book shop, and a box of organic goodies - thanks to Plump) (see photos below).

-Good Seeds Badges and Magnets for sale.

-Petition to council to sign, and

-Survey to fill in to help us understand what you want out of a community garden.

Yay! Sounds like fun! See you all there…

Thank you to the generous Yarraville traders who donated their goods to the raffle

Monday, 6 February 2012

On Saturday 18th February at 7pm, as part of the State of Sustainability Program, MOLM(Meeting of Like Minds inner west ES online community) will be hosting the screening of the movie 'HOME'as part of Transitions Film Festival, aimed at connecting likeminded non-profit community groups and environmentally conscious organisations across the State.

This event, developed by the Sustainable Living Festival, is being organised as a simultaneous satellite event, in collaboration with local grassroots organisations, to assist them in bringing together their community to spark discussion on the challenges of sustainability. As the representative of MOLM (& MAWFREG - Maidstone & West Footscray Residents Group) I've instigated this event, getting support, venue organised, etc. Now, I'd like to invite YOU as the representative of YOUR local environmental sustainability group, to join me as a 'collaborator' and participate in the promotion, running and hosting of this event. For more information on this unique cinematic masterpiece, please visit the official website here: http://www.homethemovie.org/enYou will have the opportunity to chat to attendees, promote your group at the event, encourage 'newbies' to join your distribution networks and get them involved in your activities.....so a great chance for a membership drive and increase numbers and awareness around 'ES'. You are welcome to bring along promotional material for distribution. Yarraville Community Centre has kindly shown their support by offering their venue along with local Greens MP, Colleen Hartland MLC, who has also offered her support. How it will work....Your part as a 'collaborator' is to contribute in promoting the event via your email networks, put up some posters, help set-up/clean-up on the day and be there as your group's representative and talk to attendees, making them feel welcome. No costs involved, just some 'hard yakka' contributed by you to help run it and hopefully gain the flow-on benefits to your group as part of our ES community in the West. The event is to be a free event although donations at the door will be most welcome to cover the basic costs of tea, coffee, cleaning, etc.

Event: Saturday 18th February from 7pm until ~9.30pm in the Hall at Yarraville Community Centre, (59 Francis Street, Yarraville http://www.ycc.net.au/) as part of the Sustainable Living Festival's (SLF) Transition Film Festival.

'HOME' to be shown at 7pm (90 minutes duration) with coffee/snacks/chat afterwards

People required to assist on the day with set-up (from ~5pm) chairs, equipment, etc, and pack-up/clean-up afterwards

I suggest we advertise asking attendees to bring a plate of food to share and their own cups to make it a more eco-friendly event - just need people to set this up in readiness for end of film

Maybe ask for rsvp's (to mawfreg@live.com.au or text to 0432 857 266) so we get some idea of seating requirements (as the venue has limits obviously). If there is a great demand, we can always hold another event at a later date.

Once SLF organisers have forwarded the artwork for posters, flyers, as part of the statewide promotional campaign, these will be forwarded to you for distribution amongst your networks, and physical display in various locations around the inner west.

I'm happy to liaise with local media for photoshoots, media release, etc, in order to obtain their support and event coverage....or you can have your 5 seconds of fame if you'd like?

Are you interested in being a 'collaborator'? Please let me know asap, so I can include your group's name in the promotional material for the media, which will have to happen shortly. Once we have this info, an official invitation to the public can go out on our networks and via media.

Do you have any questions or any ideas to contribute? What about a speaker after the film? Any ideas who? Take a look at the 'HOME' webpage to check out what it's all about (poster attached). So, let me know....Feel free to pass this info onto anyone you think relevant. I look forward to hearing from you all soon. ps. some groups have already indicated their support but no limits to how many, so get in touch! Apologies for any cross posts. Once I have interested groups' details, we will be sending out the official public invitation.

The Good Seeds are a group of residents living in the city of Maribyrnong who have formed a working group to advocate for the establishment of more community gardens. Our membership includes families, community workers and environmental professionals, members of Permaculture Out West (POW), Friends of Stony Creek, members of fruit and vegetable collectives and Urban Harvest Swap Meets . Currently we have over 50 people on our database!
Feel free to contact us at:
goodseeds.garden@gmail.com